Humanity needs our help!
Benefitted by three centuries of relentless technological progress primarily geared towards human advancement, humanity now wields capabilities that might seem godlike—possessing the potential to shape the very world we rely upon for our sustenance.
Unfortunately, progress in cultivating the wisdom, awareness, and moral guidance necessary to wield technology's power has failed to keep pace.
As long as we have more power than collective intelligence to direct technology’s impact, technology can become a decentralized weapon, causing harm at any scale.
This is the “Meta-Crisis” facing humanity, and there is no better example of how the Meta-Crisis manifests itself than Climate change.
The $105 trillion/year global economy is lurching toward a regenerative future, but it's moving in fits and starts with limited tangible progress. Moloch is at the heart of the problem.
Moloch – a system of bad incentives, negative sum games, unhealthy competition, and misaligned incentives – results in a widespread lack of trust and limits coordination within the system. It blocks alignment on effective transition strategies and perpetuates a continuous race to the bottom, serving to exacerbate growing human and environmental crises around the globe.
The Opportunity
Given the stakes, encompassing the global economy and the prosperity of billions, the opportunity before us is monumental. Digital Gaia's mission is to offer a transformative solutuon to this challenge. As pioneers in developing open AI infrastructure and tools, we enable the seamless integration of Planetary Intelligence into global decision-making.
Our mission opens doors for sharing insights and knowledge, grounding decisions in the realms of profit, planet, and people—ultimately steering us toward an adaptive and sustainable future for all.
Our open platform and toolkit are designed to aid pioneering leaders in responsible and sustainable enterprises, enabling them to formulate, manage, and oversee the critical decisions that steer transition strategies.
Our Project:
Our project for the AR18 Climate Solutions grant round is a natural extension of all previous Digital Gaia Gitcoin proposals, the last of which was a Beta round project focused on launching a science-based Co-Pilot to defeat moloch and regenerate the Planet.
Building on the core tech stack developed and proven with the help of previous rounds, we wi launch an Open Source Ecosystem comprised of science and technology organizations, joining forces to advance a shared protocol and infrastructure for decentralized modeling, planning, decision-making, and automation at planetary scale.
Our vision is that humanity will use this infrastructure as a civilization-wide shared neocortex and Planetary Intelligence, enabling it to overcome the existential risks of the 21st century, from climate to AI alignment, and transition into a planet-positive species.
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